Month: January 2016

Gilas will be facing France and New Zealand in group B, and teams from Turkey, Senegal and Canada from group A. France is ranked #5, the highest among 18 teams in OQTs, and is expected to be studded with NBA stars like Tony Parker, Boris Diaw and Nicolas Batum.

Game 4 of the PBA Philippine cup is about to start. Will it be the last game of the conference? The Alaska Aces will surely want to finish the series on game 4 for a sweep. But San Miguel Beermen will not hand them the championship that easy.

It will be another great year for Philippine Basketball, as the country prepares for the 2016 Olympic Qualifying Tournament. The Phillipines has been selected by FIBA as one of the 3 countries that will host the 2016 OQT. It will be held on July 4 – 10 at the Mall of Asia Arena. The other two host countries are Italy and Serbia. FIBA announced #‎FIBAOQT‬ hosts for the ‪#‎RoadToRio‬ last tuesday, January 19, 2016.

We have seen videos of war in other countries where explosions and rockets are everywhere. In every New year eve, Metro Manila is like a war zone too, except it is very beautiful to watch as fireworks all over the metro are simultaneously lit when the clock struck 12!

A flying firecracker called “Kwitis” caused a fire that engulfed almost 1,000 houses in Tondo Manila, which lasted 6 hours and reached the General Alarm. Around 3,000 families were affected and are now in evacuation centers. The fire was declared out at 6 in the morning.

A kwitis that accidentally flew inside the house of a certain Salvacion Maurelio, also caused a fire that engulfed 70 houses in barangay 56 Pericohon Tacloban. The incident displaced 84 families.

The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is again calling for the nationwide banning of all fireworks to avoid similar incidents from reoccurring.